Jazz News

Firehouse 12 Presents Pete Robbins & Centric October 27th

Source: Improvised Communications
September 20, 2006

Friday, October 27th at 8:30 and 10:00 p.m. Pete Robbins & Centric Firehouse 12 45 Crown Street in New Haven, CT Tickets are $15 (opening set) and $10 (second set) Details available here

Pete Robbins, alto saxophone/composer; Sam Sadigursky, tenor and soprano saxophones; Eliot Cardinaux, Nord Electro; Thomas Morgan, bass; Dan Weiss, drums

On Friday, October 27th, Brooklyn-based saxophonist/composer Pete Robbins and his band Centric will perform at New Haven's ...

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Trumpeter Sean Jones Releases "Roots" on Mack Avenue Records

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2006

Trumpeter Sean Jones embodies the 21st century jazz musician, an experimental, supremely talented type whose vision and sensibility encourages inclusion rather than separation. “Jazz embraces everything," Jones says. “I'm not nearly arrogant enough to try and define it as one thing or one style. Jazz has always from its very beginning linked cultures, generations, and races. To pigeonhole it and say it can only do one thing to me does a disservice to it." Jones' previous releases as well as ...

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In Wake of New CD, Bonnie Bramlett Appears in New Kevin Costner Film The Guardian

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 20, 2006

BONNIE BRAMLETT APPEARS IN NEW KEVIN COSTNER FILM

Touchtone Pictures releases action movie “THE GUARDIAN" on September 22, 2006, featuring Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher--with Zoho Roots recording artist Bonnie Bramlett in a minor role.

Legendary rock, r&b and soul singer Bonnie Bramlett--who came to international fame in the late 1960s as the female lead vocalist in southern rock/gospel group Delaney and Bonnie--is adding yet another milestone to her fabled career as an actress in “The Guardian," a new action drama ...

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Interview with Michele Hendricks at Jazzitalia

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2006

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Jazz Piano Legend Junior Mance to play Jazz at Pearl's September 22-24

Source: Rocket Words
September 20, 2006

In 1947, when 19-year-old pianist Junior Mance left Roosevelt College in Chicago to join the band of soul/jazz tenor giant Gene Ammons, he was leaping into what would become a fabulous career amidst the greats of the bebop/hard bop universe, musicians with names like Young and Gillespie. In fact, Mance would soon attain all-star status himself, and in 1997 he was inducted into the International Jazz Hall of Fame.

Soulful and swinging, Junior Mance has forged a bluesy, dexterous style ...

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The Kelsey Jillette Group at The Triad, 9/29

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2006

The Kelsey Jillette Group will be playing at The Triad Theater on September 29th 7:00 pm-8:30 pm 158 West 72nd Street (bet. Broadway & Columbus) www.triadnyc.com NY, NY $8, 2-drink minimum

About Triad: A classy, intimate theater that seats just over 100, The Triad offers a full bar, stage, lights, baby grand, great acoustics and some of the best jazz and cabaret acts in ...

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Harlem Speaks Honors Lonnie Youngblood September 28 at The Jazz Museum in Harlem 6:30pm-8:00pm

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 20, 2006

The Jazz Museum in HarlemIn Orbit 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/

Harlem Speaks Honors Lonnie Youngblood

Lonnie Youngblood, Saxophonist, September 28, 2006

Buster Williams, Bassist, October 12, 2006

Arlene Talley, Vocalist, October 26, 2006

6:30pm-8:00pm

Tenor saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood has been a staple performer in Harlem for decades, so it's fitting that he will be honored by the Jazz Museum in Harlem's Harlem Speaks program on ...

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Spike Wilner Planet Jazz Sextet at The Jazz Standard Tuesday, September 26th

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 20, 2006

Planet Jazz Sextet

featuring

Joe Magnarelli - trumpet Grant Stewart - tenor Peter Bernstein - guitar Spike Wilner - piano Neal Miner - bass Joe Strasser - drums

live at

The Jazz Standard TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th 116 E. 27th Street (212) 576- 2232 shows at 7:30 & 9:30 $20 cover http://www.jazzstandard.net

featuring music from their new cd Planet ...

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